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Cricket

noun an off-side fielding position behind the batsman’s wicket, between the wicket-keeper and gully; slip is a close catching position, but like the position of wicket-keeper its ‘depth’ increases in direct proportion to the pace of the bowling

Citation ‘In backing up, he should take care to give the man at the slip sufficient room’ (Lambert 1816)

Citation ‘Greenidge, trying to run one wide of slip, was caught by Downton’ (John Thicknesse, WCM September 1984)

Citation ‘Wessels then edged DeFreitas just out of Atherton’s diving reach at third slip’ (Richard Hutton, Cricketer September 1994)

noun a fielder occupying this position, or any of several fielders occupying positions in an arc between the wicket-keeper and gully and called collectively the slips; when there is more than one slip they are called first slip, second slip, and so on, first slip being the one closest to the wicket-keeper

Citation ‘Balls which should have come along stump-high, sprang up, hit the batsman on the fingers, and found a resting-place in the slip’s hands’ (P.G.Wodehouse, The Pro: a cricket Story)

Citation ‘The best slips I have ever seen are Chapman, Lohmann, Hammond, and Constantine’ (Warner 1934)

Citation ‘I remember facing him [Lillee] in the Centenary Test at Melbourne … bowling with six slips, a squarecover, short leg, and deepfine-leg’ (Brearley 1982)

Citation ‘Too many wickets go begging because of nicks falling just in front of the slips’ (Chas Keys, Australian Cricket October 1993)

See fielding positions

verb to ‘run’ the ball towards slip off the angled face of a straight bat

Citation ‘Strokes behind the wicket were the chief features of his game; his cutting and slipping, leg-hitting and leg-gliding being safe and brilliant always’ (Headlam 1903)

Electronics

In fax, distortion in the received image due to slippage in the mechanism which advances the paper.

(written as SLIP)

Acronym for serial Line Internet Protocol. A protocol utilized for the transfer of IP packets over a dial-up connection using a serial port. It is slow, does not provide error correction, and has been superseded by PPP. Also called SLIP protocol.

acronym forSerial Line IP

(written as SLIP)

Food

baking tray

Law

noun a slip of paper used for a particular purpose

Media Studies

noun a specialpull-out section covering a particular event

Publishing

noun the end of a cord or tape used in binding by being glued to the cover boards

Sports

noun the position of a fielder behind and near the wicketkeeper, especially on the off side, or the fielder who takes up this position

verb to dislocate or displace a bone, especially in the spine

Origin & History of “slip”

there are threeseparate words slip in English. The verb (13th c.) was probably borrowed frommiddle Low German slippen, a product of the prehistoric Germanic base *slip-. this in turn went back to Indo-European *sleib- (sourcealso of English lubricate (17th c.)), a variant of the base which gave English slide. Slippery (16th c.) was based on an earlier and now defunctslipper ‘slippery’, which also goes back to Germanic *slip-. It may have been coined by the bible translator Miles Coverdale, who used it in psalm 34:6: ‘Let their way be dark and slippery’. It is thoughtthat he modelled it on German schlipfferig ‘slippery’, used in the samepassage by Martin Luther in his translation of the Bible. Slipper ‘soft shoe’ (15th c.) was originally a shoe ‘slipped’ on to the foot; and someone who is slipshod (16th c.) is etymologically wearing ‘loose shoes’.

Slip ‘thinned clay’ (OE) is descended from Old English slypa ‘slime’, and may be related to slop (14th c.). One of its earlier meanings was ‘dung’, which is fossilized in the second element of cowslip.

Slip ‘strip, piece’ (15th c.), as in a ‘slip of paper’, was probably borrowed from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch slippe ‘cut, slit, strip’.